Simply Authentic...Your Soul Voice is Calling. Inspiration from the Hallmark Channel

Inspiration from the Hallmark Channel Opportunities and inspiration can come through the strangest avenues. Like that off-the-wall invitation to Bob Hope’s house. The way an earthly angel showed up at my moving sale when I needed her. Even how I ended up here in Oregon, by becoming engaged to someone I never married! I don’t watch much television. My partner, who lives with me, can attest to this. I often watch parts of The Young and the Restless while I eat my lunch (why stop now after 35 years?), and that’s about it. Movies on the Hallmark Channel are one notable exception. Oh, I watched several Hallmark holiday movies in December when we had rain storms and it was yucky outside. I love the predictable love story, lack of violence, consistently solid acting performances, picturesque venues, and – predictable happy ending. If I were to write for television, I’d write for the Hallmark Channel, oh yes I would, and don’t you dare make fun of me. Anyhoo, this isn’t an advertisement for Y&R or the Hallmark Channel – it’s just another random place of inspiration for me so far this year…just like your inspiration will find you…especially if you make a point of keeping a look-out for it in 2016. A Hallmark movie called Surprised By Love came on just as I was shutting off the tube and I remembered I had seen it before and enjoyed it. I could have remembered anything in particular – the elaborate anniversary cake which was partially destroyed and rebuilt with Twinkies…the fact Tim Conway (one of the funniest men ever born, if you ask me) is in it…but what stuck with me most was a musical scene towards the end.  One of the characters (played by Paul Campbell) sat down at the piano while another character (played by Leanne Lapp) sang a version of “Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home?” When George and I got back from our walk, the movie was over. I rewound it just far enough to watch that one singing scene. We listened with our toes tapping, fingers snapping, and I ordered the sheet music on-line that very same evening. It was a day or two before I found the time in my schedule to pull out that new music…and when I did, it was like my voice had been waiting for me to sing this song all my life. When I am ready for my first concert…believe me…this one will be on the program. You just never know where your next opportunity or inspiration will come from. Whispers come from your deepest authentic nature in a myriad of ways. Make a commitment to listen, and honor those authentic whispers this year…even if they come from the Hallmark Channel.